"So here's something I've always wondered- why do they always show movies in a darkened room, and how are you supposed to see them if the lights are out and your eyes are closed? Is there something I'm missing here?"

Things look even darker when 5pm hits, the tech is leaving, and you realize you're alone in the pharmacy for the dinner rush and will likely do another 20-30 prescriptions in the next two hours all by yourself in addition to answering the phone and running the register. Yeah, that's a pretty dark feeling.

This sounds a lot like my brother, who had a TBI. He's just trying to comment on his wonderful discovery that it gets dark. Never mind that it's not a discovery to the rest of his.All it takes to make him really happy to say Wow to something like that and he will burst into full fledged laughter and start jumping up and down, utterly fulfilled with the confirmation that he really is on to something cool.It is sort of neat, really, to see how wondrous it all is to him.

Welcome to my whining!

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